committeeingn.

Brit.

/kəˈmɪtɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/kəˈmɪdiɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: committee n.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < committee n.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare committee v. 2.

The activity of a committee or committees; the action of forming, attending, or taking part in a committee or committees; an instance of this.

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1837 Morning Post 4 Aug. The same greedy and growling crowd of ‘rag, tag, and bob-tail,’ which, by whipping and spurring, by Commissioning and Committeeing, by threatening and wheedling, he succeeded..in keeping from open mutiny during the past session.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 554 Caballings and committeeings.

1890 Sat. Rev. 18 Oct. 442/2 With all the Committeeing and all the cash that has been expended on the river, the utmost that can be said for the result is that the conversion of the Thames into an absolute sewer has been delayed.

1949 Abilene (Texas) Reporter News 1 Dec. 6/6 More peace could be accomplished by increasing the yield per acre of food crops than in all this committeeing.

1973 D. Lessing Summer before Dark 18 The organisation under whose umbrella the conferrings and committee-ings were going on was called Global Food.

2014 S. Schalkowsky tr. Clandestine Hist. Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police 73 The committee in general, and anything that whiffed of committees and ‘committeeing’, was hated by the population.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	committeeing
释义	committeeingn. Brit. /kəˈmɪtɪɪŋ/, U.S. /kəˈmɪdiɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: committee n.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < committee n.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare committee v. 2. The activity of a committee or committees; the action of forming, attending, or taking part in a committee or committees; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1837 Morning Post 4 Aug. The same greedy and growling crowd of ‘rag, tag, and bob-tail,’ which, by whipping and spurring, by Commissioning and Committeeing, by threatening and wheedling, he succeeded..in keeping from open mutiny during the past session. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 554 Caballings and committeeings. 1890 Sat. Rev. 18 Oct. 442/2 With all the Committeeing and all the cash that has been expended on the river, the utmost that can be said for the result is that the conversion of the Thames into an absolute sewer has been delayed. 1949 Abilene (Texas) Reporter News 1 Dec. 6/6 More peace could be accomplished by increasing the yield per acre of food crops than in all this committeeing. 1973 D. Lessing Summer before Dark 18 The organisation under whose umbrella the conferrings and committee-ings were going on was called Global Food. 2014 S. Schalkowsky tr. Clandestine Hist. Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police 73 The committee in general, and anything that whiffed of committees and ‘committeeing’, was hated by the population. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1837
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